Journal: Conspectus
Volume: CONSPECTUS 28:1 (Sep 2019)
Article: Review Of Chung And Mathewson, "Models Of Premillennialism"
Author: David B. Woods

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Conspectus 28:1 (September 2019) p. 213

Review Of Chung And Mathewson, Models Of Premillennialism

David Woods

Chung SW and Mathewson D 2018. Models of Premillennialism. Eugene: Cascade Books.

About The Author1

David Woods

MTh, SATS, David is an academic at the South African Theological Seminary.

This article: https://www.sats.edu.za/woods-review-chung-and-mathewson-models-of-premillennialism

1. Background Of The Authors

Sung Wook Chung is Professor of Christian Theology and Director of Asian Initiative at Denver Seminary, where he has worked since 2005. He is an Evangelical scholar with a substantial list of publications and a record of service in both church and mission organisation leadership. David Mathewson is also on faculty at Denver Seminary where he has served as a New Testament scholar since 2011. He is well-published, particularly in the areas of Biblical Greek and the book of Revelation.

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2. Purpose And Approach

The Bible refers to a period of a thousand years (i.e. a millennium) explicitly only in Revelation 20, both without and with the definite article.2 Premillennialism is an eschatological interpretation in which Christ will return prior to the millennium (hence pre millennial). The purpose of Models of Premillennialism is to provide an overview of how premillennial eschatology has been constructed by its proponents over the past nineteen hundred years, so that readers can understand the main characteristics of each model3 and what distinguishes it from the others. Without undue pressure to adopt any particular model, the authors seek to inform readers sufficiently to enable them to decide their own preferred form of premillennialism. Outstanding to me was their choice to avoid similar evaluation of postmillennialism and amillennialism, which are only mentioned in passing. This reduces their scope enormously, sparing the reader from a rapid spiral of complexity found in other such literature. (Of course, readers still need to establish their own preference of millennialism unless they are content to accept premillennialism on account of it being demonstrably more ancient than postmillennialism and amillennialism).

Models of Premillennialism is written for anyone who is willing to study biblical eschatology; it is not for experts; it does not require any knowledge of biblical Greek; and it is not essentially exegetical. Its aim is ...

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